Tech firms deploy Bluetooth chips for coronavirus contact tracing in office

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Technology companies are developing their own contact tracing systems to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks in their offices as countries begin to ease lockdown measures and a return to the workplace is in the offing.

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker reaches toward a car to grab a completed coronavirus diagnostic test, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

All U.S. states have eased virus lockdowns, but work-from-home remains the norm in California’s tech industry. California has reported more than 86,000 coronavirus cases and 3,500 deaths, the lowest tallies in the United States relative to the state’s large population. “They are saying: If this is a reason for me to rip out my old Wi-Fi and put in a Wi-Fi plus BLE solution and support contact tracing use cases, I can definitely get budget for that,” he said.

 

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It's a good idea, and it's not like they are injecting it into employee's bodies.

Yikes, the privacy violations.

delbigtree can you you believe this? This is unbelievable

what is this thumbnail? lmao

Wtf...

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